Andy Beam
5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 16, 2026 by Andy Beam · across every show →
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Jul 16, 2026 positive
Beam: Lila's best non-platinum electrocatalysts came from AI ideas experts called stupid
“Some of the suggestions from the model initially were boring, but then transitioned from boring to what he considered to be stupid. These are non-platinum group electrocatalysts for separation of hydrogen and oxygen from water to make hydrogen, and those turns…”
Jul 16, 2026 neutral
Beam: AI safety cannot wait because capability curves are sigmoid-shaped
“Safety is not something you can procrastinate on because capability curves tend to be sigmoid shaped and it can look like everything's fine and then all of a sudden there's something that you didn't Anticipate the model being able to do.”
Jul 16, 2026
Beam: Lila Sciences prioritizes experimental flexibility over throughput
“So actually, the experimental platform that we're building prioritizes generalizability and flexibility over raw throughput. We want the model to be able to design a new experimental protocol, run the protocol, and receive the feedback, even if that's not an e…”
Jul 16, 2026 bearish
Beam: AI research has exhausted human-generated internet data
“That data came from the internet, it was human generated, and we have used it all. You know, as Elia said at NeurIPS last year, We have but one internet. It's the fossil fuel. We fracked. We got every ounce of data that we could out of the internet, but it's g…”
Jul 16, 2026 bullish
Beam: Nature and scientific experiments are ultimate verifiers for RL
“But what at Lilo we believe is that actually science running the scientific method and using nature and experiments as verifier is like the ultimate version of that. And so what we're building, we'll talk about these things that we call AI science factories. T…”